Author: Ernest Luning
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Jeff Hurd primary challenger Hope Scheppelman signs Libertarians’ pledge in bid to avoid ‘spoiler’
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Hope Scheppelman, the Bayfield Republican challenging first-term U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd in next year’s GOP primary, has signed a pledge prepared by the Colorado Libertarian Party as part of an arrangement meant to discourage the minor political party from running “spoiler” candidates in the 2026 election. Under an unprecedented agreement between Libertarians and the state…
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Q&A with Colorado lawmaker Barb Kirkmeyer | Republican says she’ll be a governor who ‘knows how to govern’
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State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer says her decades of experience in government — as a county commissioner, director of a state department and state legislator — have prepared her to be a “really great governor,” and the Brighton Republican argues that’s what it’ll take to pull Colorado out of the tailspin she says it’s in. The…
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CU Regent Wanda James aims to deny Denver Democrat Diana DeGette a 16th term in Congress | TRAIL MIX
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U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat and the senior member of Colorado’s congressional delegation, has gotten used to facing primary challengers in the last decade, though she’s fended them off almost as easily as she’s sailed to reelection every two years in the state’s deepest blue district. Amid widespread dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party…
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Colorado Democrat Yadira Caraveo drops bid to win back 8th Congressional District seat
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Former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo announced on Friday that she was ending her campaign to reclaim the Colorado congressional seat the Thornton Democrat lost last year in one of the closest U.S. House races in the country. Caraveo, a pediatrician and the first Latina to represent the state in Washington said in a statement that…
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‘Heartbroken’: Colorado political leaders, organizations condemn assassination of Charlie Kirk
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Colorado elected officials and political groups expressed grief, outrage and resolve against political violence in reaction to the fatal shooting of conservative organizer and nonprofit leader Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University. “Today is a really hard day,” said U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Windsor Republican who described Kirk as her friend in…
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Republican state lawmaker Barb Kirkmeyer set to launch campaign for Colorado governor
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Republican state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer filed paperwork Monday to run to be Colorado’s next governor, making the Brighton lawmaker’s long-anticipated campaign official. Kirkmeyer, who lost a close race for Congress in 2022, plans to make a formal announcement Tuesday evening in Fort Lupton, her campaign said in a release. The 66-year-old dairy farmer and fourth-generation…
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Ruling that voided Colorado’s ‘midnight gerrymander’ prevents mid-decade redistricting | TRAIL MIX
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Colorado can’t join in the frenzy currently sweeping a handful of solidly partisan states across the country whose Republican or Democratic leaders, respectively, are plotting to redraw congressional districts in a bid to sideline the opposition and give their own party an advantage in next year’s midterm elections. Hardly any prominent Colorado Democrats have called…
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Republican Janak Joshi formally launches challenge to Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper
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Republican Janak Joshi, a former state lawmaker from Colorado Springs, has formally launched his campaign to challenge first-term Democratic U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper in next year’s election. Joshi, who made an unsuccessful run for Congress last year after moving to Thornton, joins retired Col. George Market, a 30-year Marine Corps veteran from Broomfield, in the…
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Colorado Democrats choose Pueblo for 2026 state assembly
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The Colorado Democratic Party announced on Tuesday that its 2026 state assembly will take place at a historic theater in Pueblo next spring, marking the first time in eight years that the party will hold an in-person statewide nominating convention. Next year’s assembly is set for Saturday, March 28, at Memorial Hall, a stone’s throw…
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Colorado Republicans’ vice chair vacancy election revives battle for soul of state GOP | TRAIL MIX
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Colorado’s Republicans plan to fill the state party’s vacant vice chair position later this month in an election pitting two starkly different visions of the state GOP and the party’s path back from the sidelines in a state that’s turned an increasingly brighter blue in the decade since Donald Trump emerged as the Republican Party’s…
